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"Whenever we consider environmental threats to human health, we do so knowing that, superimposed on the threat itself, are additional impacts due to global warming and altered precipitation patterns associated with climate change."

~ Professor Michael Depledge
Chair of Environment and Human Health
Peninsula Medical School

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Top 50 Things To Do To Stop Global Warming:
~from GlobalWarming-Facts.info.

Thank Scholastic for Helping Harry Potter Go Green!
~National Wildlife Federation

Climate Change - What You Can Do
~from the EPA

Conferences

2008 Sustainable University Symposium
29 July 2008, Chicago, Illinois, USA

International Conference
"Living with climate change: are there limits to adaptation?

7-8 February 2008, London, United Kingdom

8th National Conference on Science, Policy and the Environment Climate Change: Science and Solutions
16-18, January 2008, Washington, D.C.

Also see the Events Calendar


News Articles on Climate Change


2008

2007

2008

July

Hydrogen Economy Sustainable in 15 years

Science News 17 July 2008

CO2: Only One Flavor

Science News 13 July 2008

Corn-based Ethanol Could Worsen “Dead Zone”

Environmental News Network 11 July 2008

Researchers Develop Efficient Solar Power Devices

Environmental News Network 11 July 2008

LCD Chemical Found to Have 17,000 Times the Climate Impact of CO2

Environmental News Network 10 July 2008

G8 Patches Up Climate Deal, Others Want More

Environmental News Network 10 July 2008

Carbon Sciences: Turning Carbon Emissions into "GreenCarbon"

Environmental Defense Fund 10 July 2008

California's Global Warming Plan

Environmental Defense Fund 9 July 2008

Aspiring to Save the Planet

Science News 9 July 2008

Reducing Global Warming and Air Pollution: The Role of Green Development in California

Environmental Defense Fund 8 July 2008

Climate Threatens Living Fossil

Science News Web Edition 3 July 2008

The Caribbean and Climate Change: The Costs of Inaction

Environmental Defense Fund 2 July 2008

June

Recycled Heat Waste: Cutting Emissions, Saving Money

Environmental Defense Fund 27 June 2008

Want to Kick the Oil Habit? Cut Emissions

Environmental Defense Fund 20 June 2008

International Carbon Initiative Failing: The Case of Papua New Guinea

Triple Pundit 19 June 2008

Project Aims to Assure Coal’s Still King in a Warming World

Earth News 18 June 2008

CO2 and Other Greenhouse Gases

BuildingGreen 18 June 2008

Kyoto Mechanisms Face Overhaul, Not the Scrap Heap

Earth News 17 June 2008

As Habitats Change, Some Species Head North

Earth News 17 June 2008

If A Tree Falls In The Forest, And No One Is Around To Hear It, Does Climate Change?

ScienceDaily 13 June 2008

In the Race for a Non-food Fuel, the Pole Position Car Runs on Corn Cobs

Earth News 13 June 2008

Unintended Consequences - Healing Antarctica’s Ozone Hole has a Possible Downside

Science News Magazine - web edition 12 June 2008

Has Global Warming Research Misinterpreted Cloud Behavior?

Science Daily 12 June 2008

Expanding Wind Industry Hits Bats, Turbulence and Lawsuits

Earth News 12 June 2008

Freshwater Runoff From Greenland Ice Sheet Will More Than Double By End Of Century

Science Daily 12 June 2008

Ocean Life Under Threat From Climate Change

Science Daily 11 June 2008

Bringing home the results of climate change

Earth News 11 June 2008

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (REDD): Implications for the Carbon Market

Environmental Defense Fund 9 June 2008

Cap and Trade 101

Environmental Defense Fund 3 June 2008

2007

October

Arctic Changes Point to Gaps in Climate Predictions

Earth News 18/10/07

Americans Consider Global Warming an Urgent Threat, Poll Finds

Yale University 1/10/07

September

Cave Records Provide Clues to Climate Change

Georgia Tech 26/9/07

Parking Spaces Outnumber Drivers 3-to-1, Drive Pollution and Warming

Purdue University 11/9/07

Future Retreat of Arctic Sea Ice Will Lower Polar Bear Populations and Limit Their Distribution

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) 7/9/07

August

Green Goes to School

Los Angeles Times 23/8/07

How Green is Your Shopping?

Chicago Tribune 22/8/07

Climate Change Goes Underground

Soil Science Society of America 22/8/07

Ecological Restoration - A Global Strategy for Mitigating Climate Change

Society for Ecological Restoration International 17/8/07

CU-Boulder Research Group Forecasts 92 Percent Chance Of Record Low Arctic Sea Ice Extent In 2007

University of Colorado-Boulder 16/8/07

Bottle-maker Urges Consumers to Shun Toss-away Bottles

EarthNews of Earth Portal 15/8/07

Freshwater Supplies Threatened in Central Pacific

EurekAlert Earth Science 15/8/07

Bones Beat Trees as Markers for Environmental Change

Michigan Technological University 10/8/07

Rain Forest Protection Works in Peru

Carnegie Institution 9/8/07

Indo-Pacific Coral Reefs Disappearing More Rapidly Than Expected

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 7/8/07

Another Unpleasant Effect of Global Warming

University of Hull 3/8/07

Nano-boric Acid Makes Motor Oil More Slippery

DOE-Argonne National Laboratory 3/8/07

Pollution Amplifies Greenhouse Gas Warming Trends to Jeopardize Asian Water Supplies

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) 1/8/07

July

Green Energy TV Continues To Share New And Exciting Green Energy Videos With Viewers Worldwide On Their Internet Television Channel

Green Energy TV 30/7/07

Climate Change Linked to Doubling of Atlantic Hurricanes

National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research 29/7/07

New Report Details Threat to Puget Sound and Pacific Coastal Habitats

National Wildlife Federation 24/7/07

Asia-Pacific Countries See Effects of Climate Change on Health, Brace for More

Environmental News Network 3/7/07

June

U.N. Report: Desertification a Threat

Washington Post 27/6/07

World Wildlife Fund Warns Against Iron Dumping Experiment Near the Galapagos Islands

World Wildlife Fund 27/6/07

CU-Boulder Study Shows Desert Droughts Lead To Earlier Annual Mountain Snow Loss

University of Colorado-Boulder 25/6/07

Environmental Degradation Triggering Tensions and Conflict in Sudan

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) 22/6/07

Google Aims To Go Carbon-Neutral by the End of 2007

Environmental News Network 20/6/07

Investors Flock to Renewable Energy and Efficiency Technologies

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) 20/6/07

Severity of Desertification on World Stage

European Space Agency (ESA) 15/6/07

Reduced Greenhouse Gas Emissions Required to Avoid Dangerous Increases in Heat Stress, Researchers Say

Purdue University 14/6/07

Carnegie Mellon Researchers Report Rising U.S. Trade May Hinder Future Global Efforts To Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions

Carnegie Mellon University 13/6/07

First Buoy to Monitor Ocean Acidification Launched

National Science Foundation (NSF) 12/6/07

Dirty Snow May Warm Arctic as Much as Greenhouse Gases

University of California-Irvine 6/6/07

Melting Ice-A Hot Topic? New UNEP Report Shows Just How Hot It's Getting:
Lives and Livelihoods of Hundreds of Millions if not Billions in Many Parts of the World
Influenced by Ice and Snow Losses Linked to Climate Change

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) 4/6/07

May

Research Finds That Earth's Climate is Approaching 'Dangerous' Point

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center 30/5/07

"Hotter Than I Should Be": WWF Launches New Campaign to Fight Global Warming

World Wildlife Fund 21/5/07

Investigating Coral Reefs to Help Understand Past and Future Climate Change

European Science Foundation 16/5/07

'Build Parks to Climate Proof our Cities'

The University of Manchester 14/5/07

Understanding the Global Carbon Budget:
Woods Hole Research Center Expert Provides Insights

Woods Hole Research Center 9/5/07

IPCC Confirms that Cost-effective Policies and Technologies Could Greatly Reduce Global Warming

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) 4/5/07

April

Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace: The Business World Looks at Climate Change

Geotimes 26/4/07

Warming Predicted to Take Severe Toll on U.S.

The Washington Post 17/4/07

Security Council Holds First-ever Debate on Impact of Climate Change on
Peace, Security, Hearing over 50 Speakers

United Nations 17/4/07

Millions at Risk of Hunger and Water Stress in Asia Unless Global Greenhouse Emissions Cut

United Nations Environment Programme 10/4/07

March

Global Warming Forecasts Creation, Loss Of Climate Zones

University of Wisconsin-Madison 26/3/07

Regardless of Global Warming, Rising CO2 Levels Threaten Marine Life

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 8/3/07

NASA Data Links Indonesian Wildfire Flare-Up to Recent El Nino

National Aeronautics and Space Administration 1/3/07

February

United States Launches New International Polar Year

National Science Foundation 28/2/07

AAAS Board Releases New Statement on Climate Change

American Association for the Advancement of Science 18/2/07

NASA Study Finds Warmer Future Could Bring Droughts

National Aeronautics and Space Administration 12/2/07

 

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